Richard Crenna
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| Richard Crenna | |
| Birth name | Richard Donald Crenna |
| Born | November 30, 1926 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Died | January 17, 2003 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Years active | 1940s-2000s |
| Spouse(s) | Penni Sweeney (m. 1959 until his death in 2003) |
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor.
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[edit] Early life
Born in Los Angeles, California to Italian immigrants, Crenna got his acting start on radio, appearing in My Favorite Husband, Boy Scout Jamboree, A Date With Judy, The Great Gildersleeve and Our Miss Brooks. He remained with the cast of the latter show when it transitioned to television. When Our Miss Brooks underwent a format change, writing out his character Walter Denton, he moved to another television program, The Real McCoys starring Walter Brennan. Crenna played the lead in a television series for one season in 1964's Slattery's People.
[edit] Career
Crenna had a long career in films, appearing in such movies as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, First Blood (and its following Rambo sequels), Hot Shots! Part Deux and The Flamingo Kid.
[edit] Pancreatic Cancer and Death
Suffering from pancreatic cancer, Crenna died on January 17, 2003 of heart failure in Los Angeles, California at the age of 76. At the time of his death, he had a recurring role in the television series Judging Amy. On the show, his death was recognized by the death of the character he portrayed.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Blvd.
Crenna's son, Richard Anthony Crenna, is also an actor.
[edit] Filmography
- Let's Dance (1950)
- Red Skies of Montana (1952)
- The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
- It Grows on Trees (1952)
- Our Miss Brooks (1956)
- Over-Exposed (1956)
- Ann-Margret: Made in Paris (1965) (short subject)
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
- Made in Paris (1966)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- Star! (1968)
- Midas Run (1969)
- Marooned (1969)
- Doctors' Wives (1971)
- The Deserter (1971)
- Red Sky at Morning (1971)
- Catlow (1971)
- Dirty Money (1972)
- The Man Called Noon (1973)
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
- Breakheart Pass (1975)
- The Evil (1978)
- Wild Horse Hank (1979)
- Stone Cold Dead (1979)
- Death Ship (1980)
- Body Heat (1981)
- First Blood (1982)
- Table for Five (1983)
- The Flamingo Kid (1984)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
- Summer Rental (1985)
- Rambo III (1988)
- Leviathan (1989)
- Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
- Jade (1995)
- Sabrina (1995)
- Wrongfully Accused (1998)
- Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents (2002) (documentary) (narrator)
[edit] External links
- Richard Crenna at the Internet Movie Database
- Archive of American Television Video Interview with Richard Crenna [1]
